Sociolinguistic PatternsThis classic volume, by a well-known linguist, constitutes a systematic introduction to sociolinguistics, unmatched in the clarity and forcefulness of its approach, and to the study of language in its social setting. |
Contents
2 Centralization of ay and aw by Age Level | 22 |
6 Centralization and Orientation towards Marthas | 39 |
The Social Stratification of r in New York City | 43 |
1 Detailed Distribution of r by Store and Word | 53 |
The Isolation of Contextual Styles | 70 |
The Reflection of Social Processes in Linguistic | 110 |
1 Distribution of Index of Linguistic Insecurity | 133 |
Subjective Dimensions of a Linguistic Change | 143 |
On the Mechanism of Linguistic Change | 160 |
1 Centralization Indexes by Age Level | 167 |
The Study of Language in Its Social Context | 183 |
1 Effect of Variant Forms of Fig 8 1 on NEGV | 196 |
3 Constraints on td Deletion | 222 |
The Social Setting of Linguistic Change | 260 |
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1 rPositive Response to the TwoChoice Test | 149 |
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age levels analysis careful speech casual speech centralization of aw change in progress Charmey Chilmark consonant correlated deletion dialect differentiation diphthongs distribution Edgartown English ethnic group evaluation evidence example feature formal styles formant grammatical guistic hypercorrect informants interview island isolated Kleins Labov linguistic behavior linguistic change linguistic structure linguistic variable Lower East Side lower middle class Macy's Martha's Vineyard mechanism of linguistic merger minimal pairs morpheme native NEG-Q NEG-V neo-grammarian norms observed pattern percent phonetic phonological phonological variables Portuguese position prestige form problem pronunciation question r-less r-pronunciation r)-positive response raising regular Saks sample sentences social context social stratification socioeconomic class sociolinguistic sound change speakers speech community stigmatized style shifting stylistic variation subjective reaction tests systematic Table tense tion values variable constraints variable rule vernacular word class word lists working-class York City Yorkers